Highly innovative polymer electrolytes and polymer active materials
for advanced post-lithium batteries.
The development of advanced storage technologies to enable the integration of sustainable energy sources in the electric grid represents a major challenge for our society. In the last years, lithium-ion batteries attracted great attention and became the most known and widespread battery system in our society. However, since they contain toxic and/or scarce metals, e.g., cobalt and nickel, as well as flammable solvents, the development of more environmentally friendly and safer battery technologies represents a priority. Additionally, this technology is limited when flexibility, low cost, or even higher energy density are important. POLYSTORAGE will tackle these limitations by developing highly innovative polymer electrolytes and polymer active materials for advanced post-lithium batteries.
Polymers are currently applied in lithium-ion batteries mostly as additives and/or binders. The next generation of energy storage technologies needs new polymer innovations to solve current technological issues. In particular, novel polymer electrolytes, being compatible with advanced electrode materials (e.g., sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, lithium-metal, sodium-air) and displaying high ionic conductivity and mechanical stability, as well as innovative redox-active polymers for the use as active materials in emerging polymer-based battery technologies (polymer redox-flow batteries (pRFBs) and hybrid organic batteries) are urgently needed. The new polymers will be optimized for processing in semi-automatic or fully automatic pilot lines and the best performing system will be scaled up and integrated in real cell configurations by an industrial partner.
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Our new ESR 11 is Mingjie Zhang from China
She has a background in Materials Science and Engineering with interests on clean energy materials. During her bachelor’s at Imperial […]

Our ESR 17 is Pierre Stigliano working at POLYMAT in San Sebastian (Spain) as well as Deakin University in Melbourne (Australia)
Pierre was born and raised in Italy. He earned his B.Sc. in Materials Science from the University of Milan-Bicocca in […]

Ying Zhang is the new ESR 8 at Politecnico di Torino!
Ying comes from China and received her degree of Master of Research in Advanced Chemical Sciences from the University of […]

Welcome Tijs Lap at POLYMAT as ESR 3!
Tijs was born in Wageningen/Netherlands and moved to Nijmegen for his studies, where he obtained his bachelor and his master’s […]

Welcome Kingsley Ikenna Aniagbaoso as ESR 12 at the University of Pau!
Kingsley was born in the southeast of Nigeria and obtained his bachelor’s degree in polymer engineering from the Federal University […]

Welcome Öykü Simsek as ESR 2 at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena!
Öykü comes from Istanbul, Turkey. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering and Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the […]

1st POLYSTORAGE Workshop and Progress Meeting
Our first POLYSTORAGE online event on 1st and 2nd October 2020 was a great success! In the first part all […]

Welcome Kenza Elbouazzaoui as the new ESR 5 at Uppsala University!
Kenza comes from Morocco and obtained her Bachelor and Master’s degree in Materials Science at the Cadi Ayyad University in […]

Welcome Ousmane Camara to the ETN POLYSTORAGE!
He is our Early Stage Researcher 9 supervised by Prof. Dr. David Mecerreyes and Dr. Rebeca Marcilla. Ousmane was born […]

Welcome Isaac Alvarez as ESR 7 working at the Catholic University of Louvain!
Isaac was born and raised in Mexico. He obtained his Bachelor and Master degree in Chemistry and Chemistry – Energy […]

Welcome Rebecca Grieco as ESR 10 at the IMDEA Energy Institute in Madrid, Spain!
Rebecca comes from Rome, Italy. She received her Masters Degree in Analytical Chemistry from the University Sapienza in Rome. In […]

Welcome Olivera Lužanin as ESR 14 at the National Institute of Chemistry in Slovenia!
Olivera comes from Serbia and joined the Department of Materials Chemistry at the National Institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana in […]

Welcome Alessandro Innocenti to the ETN POLYSTORAGE!
He is our Early Stage Researcher 4 supervised by Prof. Dr. Stefano Passerini at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm / Karlsruhe […]

ETN POLYSTORAGE: News on project status and presentation of the first ESR’s at the online meeting on 6 July.
The supervisors of all our beneficiary organisations plus our new ESR’s and Deakin University – and thus 35 participants from […]

Welcome Alessandro Michieletto to the ETN POLYSTORAGE!
Our Early Stage Researcher 1 just started at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena He studied Materials Science in Padua/Italy, both […]

Kick-Off-Meeting ETN POLYSTORAGE on 3 February 2020 in Jena
We were happy to welcome 24 participants from 9 european countries. Furthermore, 4 participants attended via video conference. As we […]